Making the perfect smart home - home automation ideas

I show you my favourite home automation ideas that I use in my smart home. If you want to recreate these at home, check out my blog posts with more detail!

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[glenvanderpost]

Great video! The visual guide to walkthrough the steps of each automation is super helpful and I always love implementing neat things like this to my setup!

[handcoding]

Thanks so much for sharing all these handy ideas!

[TheSkepticSkwerl]

An automation I just thought of is so simple. But so good. Where we live, leaving our windows open is common. Sometimes we close them and don't change the AC. So now my home tells me when the temperature is out of range. If it's above 75 or below 50

[edimysmarthome]

Thank you for sharing all the smart home ideas. ❤

[petergaudiomonte]

You've got my SUB! Great job and thank you for sharing!

[HATipsByLarry]

Those are some great automations. I've found that motion sensors are great for turning lights on when you come into a room, especially if they are run locally. However in the case of wanting to turn them off when you leave the room timers do not seem to work so well. Found that you either have to set them to wait a long time to keep them from turning off the lights if your not moving around a lot (like when reading or working on the computer) or they leave you in the dark if you set the time to short. I'm using some esp32's and firmware called espresense to tell HA what room i'm in. Works a lot better.

[kentmc]

Great tutorial. After many other tutorials, I finally understand how to create automations.

[MarkGhali]

Love your videos! You need more subs! keep it up!

[ronm]

Great automations! Thanks for sharing.

[danielaguilarbenitez]

great video.. Do you have a video whe explain with more details how to create the automatisation with the chromecast. Thanks

[AndreasLenze]

Brilliant - love your ideas! Clearly, I need to spend more quality time with my Home Assistant - cheers!

[martinsherry]

another really helpful video from you - thanks again, and fingers crossed for the 10k.

[davidunwin]

How do you power everything? You must have power cords running everywhere to the strip lighting and the blinds?

How do you make a dumb ceiling light smart? Do you just switch in a Phillips hue light bulb and leave the power switch on?

[turbochip]

Great video as always. I would like to see a video of how you adapt your automations to take into account your partner. For example what do the lights around your TV do when only one of you gets up to go get a snack.

[sweetpo]

Love the light automation, i have an LG Web OS Smart TV and a Chromecast Ultra and it works really well but not when watching Netflix, no clue why!

[babakhallajian]

Hi Thanks for this great video. would you please tell me why you don't use Node-Red versus HA?

[ThijmenCodes]

Great video, appreciate the pacing. Haven't though about using a smart sensor to determine whether "dumb" devices such as your washing machine have finished their job. Nice!!

[MrSupersidewinder]

Something else that would be very helpful is recommendations for reliable zigbee common devices. I have been using x-10 stuff since it came out and still have 16 or more functioning devices. While I would like to be able to control them in HA I am willing to switch now. I for example need plug in lamp modules (dimmable), Heavy appliance modules (15a 1800watt), light switches (decora style), 3 way light switches and their slaves... Many dimmable modules I have looked at are rated at 10a, are not UL listed, buzz loudly (reviews), flicker at low levels, covers pull off exposing high voltages... etc... I don't want to try a pile to find good stuff, I'd like to bulk order high quality items up front... Everyone coming into home automation/control will want these items regardless of the tech behind them... (zigbee, zwave, wifi). A best of the best video is in order, you could be the one to bring it forth!!!

[jupamoers]

I have some automations, that do work to a certain point...
There is one automation, that doesn't work all the time. I think, the smart plug is broken somehow: It is set to turn on at sunset and turn off at 1 am. Doesn't work all the time. Even after a reset ... And another automation is set to make some smart bulbs a specific color and brightness on a special voice command, which only works for the brightness...I think, I have to replace these specific devices

[tihomirilic]

ja sam do sada koristio OBLO i prezadovoljan njihovim dimerima i upravljačima roleta, ali da, treba koristiti idruge dobavljače